Tag Archive for ‘libraries’
A Year of Good Reading
My first post of this New Year is actually a Guest Post. The very illustrious Bookclubgirl recently asked me to produce a year’s worth of recommended Reading for Book Clubs. She posted my guest post on her blog today and you can find it here. I don’t belong to any book club, but I am [...]
Banned Books Week
Each year, the American Library Association and other groups mark Banned Books Week during the last week in September. This year it begins Saturday September 26 and continues through October 3. In a time when some American parents don’t want their children to hear the President of the United States give a speech on education [...]
A Tale of Two Libraries
The headline was a shocker. All Free Library of Philadelphia Branch, Regional and Central Libraries Closed Effective Close of Business October 2, 2009 I read about the possible closing of the Philadelphia Free Library –in the city where Benjamin Franklin helped invent the public library in 1731—with shock, sadness, and dismay. And more than a [...]
